Old Guard leader Councilman Michael Russo saw a Plan B to run his Democratic Committee slate under NJ Assemblyman John Wisniewski crushed as news broke late Friday it isn't happening.

Mayor Dawn Zimmer has already acquired the line under the Democratic favorite for NJ governor, former US Ambassador to Germany Phil Murphy.

Anthony "Stick" Romano is also on the same Line A leading to some serious agita in the Old Guard camp. As one Old Guard source excerpted from the last issue of MSV Premium said, "Romano is running above his line without his committee under him."

Now the Russo faction Democrat committee candidates may be as close to Phil Murphy's Line A as Siberia.

Related: MSV's exclusive series of stories in 2011 of Councilman Russo's Jersey City lunch meeting with FBI information Solomon Dwek re: the Jersey Sting, directly led to the release of the FBI surveillance tape.